Autumn Magic for PP809

Hello friends!  Can you believe how quickly this month is flying by?  I'm trying to enjoy every remaining day of beautiful October.  The trees are turning color en mass, the leaves are falling and the chill is in the air.  Love it!

Anyway, that's not why you're here!  We have a new challenge over at the Paper Players starting today and the amazing Christy has a fabulous sketch to spark your creativity.

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Speaking of flying by, I created an autumn themed card featuring a very cute owl.  Check it out...

Isn't she fun?  The die set includes everything except the sentiment and the branch, which I hand cut from brown cardstock.  The packaging definitely inspired the arched nighttime scene, but I changed it to align with Christy's sketch, the branch being the horizontal strip and the owl being the shape rather than a large leaf.

All the die cut pieces were ink blended with various Distress inks, the exception being her face.  There were dies to cut out pink cheeks for the owl, but I chose to just use a light colored pink Copic marker in the embossed areas rather than the harsh look of the dies.  In hindsight, I wish I'd done a bit of shading on her face.  In real life, she looks fine but the photos make her look much paler.

After I created the arch background from dark blue cardstock, I used a darker blue ink and blended it across the upper part of the sky.  When that dried, I used gold splatter to emulate stars.  When that dried, the moon and die cut stars were added around the owl sitting on her branch, and I filled the space beneath with a variety of fall leaves.  The sentiment was gold heat embossed and popped up on foam tape and that finished things off.

I realized, just as I was finishing this post, that I forgot the extra layer on top of the base.  I think the card still bears the essence of the sketch, hopefully!

This is such a great sketch with unlimited options, so I hope you'll find time to join us.  The challenge will remain open until Friday, October 30th at 3pm.  In the meantime, I encourage you to visit the challenge blog where my talented teammates have oodles of inspiration for you.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stef

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